A review by avereads
Dust Devils by Jonathan Janz
5.0
“It’s the danger of readin’ too many books... They tell you pretty lies and you get to believin’ ‘em. Get thinkin’ things are gonna work out like they should. Get to thinkin’ there’s justice. I could tell that about you right away, that you were still seein’ yourself in a book. That’s why you were holdin’ back. You kept tellin’ yourself something would happen to make you act like a hero, but that’s not how it is in real life. In real life you just gotta do somethin’ and hope it’s right. Things happen faster in real life.”
When Cody’s wife is lured into the life of travelling performers, he had no idea he would lose her both to the life they can provide and the life they will eventually take away. Willet Black watches as the same actors tear apart and eat his entire family. Bound together by the same unfortunate circumstance, Cody and Willet are bent are taking revenge on the creatures who caused it.
I don’t have very much interest in western or vampire novels on their own, but combine them together and I am at peak interest. Janz blended the two together so well and as I’ve said before he’s so great at making really entertaining stories. I think he’s my go to for when I want to read something I know I’ll enjoy and just want to have a good time reading. But, don’t get me wrong, as much as I had fun reading this book, it was still very gruesome and blood soaked and tense. The scenes were set up so good I almost felt like I was in New Mexico in 1885 and that’s always what I want from a novel, to really feel like I’m experiencing it. I really liked the protagonist, Cody, too. He’s an unlikely hero who didn’t want to be thrown in this mess but has to do the right thing. The villain, Adam Price, was really intriguing too and I thought the way the vampires were portrayed in their “true form” was a lil spooky and different. I thought this novel was really unique (at least I’ve never heard of a western vampire tale before) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 4.5/5
Thank you to the publisher for sending a copy in exchange for an honest review
When Cody’s wife is lured into the life of travelling performers, he had no idea he would lose her both to the life they can provide and the life they will eventually take away. Willet Black watches as the same actors tear apart and eat his entire family. Bound together by the same unfortunate circumstance, Cody and Willet are bent are taking revenge on the creatures who caused it.
I don’t have very much interest in western or vampire novels on their own, but combine them together and I am at peak interest. Janz blended the two together so well and as I’ve said before he’s so great at making really entertaining stories. I think he’s my go to for when I want to read something I know I’ll enjoy and just want to have a good time reading. But, don’t get me wrong, as much as I had fun reading this book, it was still very gruesome and blood soaked and tense. The scenes were set up so good I almost felt like I was in New Mexico in 1885 and that’s always what I want from a novel, to really feel like I’m experiencing it. I really liked the protagonist, Cody, too. He’s an unlikely hero who didn’t want to be thrown in this mess but has to do the right thing. The villain, Adam Price, was really intriguing too and I thought the way the vampires were portrayed in their “true form” was a lil spooky and different. I thought this novel was really unique (at least I’ve never heard of a western vampire tale before) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 4.5/5
Thank you to the publisher for sending a copy in exchange for an honest review